Improvement in skirt-bindings



Nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. G-ALLUP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPRVEMENT IN SKIRT-BINDINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,667, dated January 20, 1874; application filed December 31, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM II. GALLUP, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Binding for Ladies Skirts, of which the following bination, with-the braid or binding now ordinarily used for such purposes, of a water-proof material, as rubber, or rubber cloth, leather, 85e., so connected with said braid or binding that when applied .to the lower edge of the skirt, as will hereinafter be explained, it will serve to protect the dress and, the binding from beingchafed or tom upon the pavement, and also serves to prevent the absorption of moisture due to the capillaryT attraction of the fibers in the texture of the fabric itself, as will appear in the following description, and by a reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichl Figure l is a plan or outline of' a portion of a skirt with the new binding affixed; Fig. 2, a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1.

` be made of water-proof cloth or+wov`en fabric coated or treated with a substance to render it water-proof, or it may be formed of leather or sheet-rubber,` as'desired but when formed of anything that will have a ravelled or raw edge, said edge should be turned over and under like a- 'hem before itis applied to` the` braid, as shown `at C', Fig. 1,'and then the two are sewed together, thereby forming a double fabric, one portion of which consists of the braid or binding, and the other of the protecting or water-proof material; and in this manner I design to provide a new article of manufacture for binding the skirts of ladies Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are illustrations of modifications in the dresses, and its method of application is illustrated in the sectional views at Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5. A

At Fig. 2 is represented one method of attachin g the binding to the' dresses or skirts.

The lower edge'A/and the lining a are fastened between the braid B and the protecting ma' terial C, and then sewed together, as indicated by the small transverse lines. This combination will produce a jinished binding to the dress, as shown at Fig. 1 3 but another method of application is shown at Fig. 3, where the lower edges of thehskirts are turned under and then sewed upon the outside of the braid and its protecting material. In this case two rows of stitches would be necessary, as indicated 'lhis method can only be adopted when the. protecting material is formed of` sheet-rubber,

or something that will not have a raw or raveled edged, and even then it will not serve as good a protection to the braid as when formed as represented in Figs. l, 2, and 3, where it turns over [and around the lower edge of the braid itself.

As au article for binding the edges of` a great variety of goods besides skirts, such a braid will be found useful not only for protection, but for adding strength. Y

It is also evident that the new article of binding 1nayb`e formed of other wovenfabric besides what is technically termed braid.

I therefore claim- As a new article of manufacture, a binding for skirts consisting of the braid B, of textile fabric, and the leather or water-proof protecting-piece C, when ycombined and arranged in the in aimer and for the purpose set forth.

l XVILLIAM H. GALLUP.

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